Re: downcast issues

2012-06-07 Thread Chris G
Hi, Here are three tweets from the developer. about 6 days ago, Downcast posted Please let me know if you are or are not having trouble with subscribing to podcasts via search. about 6 days ago, Downcast posted Upon further investigation, it looks like subscribing from any of the "Top Podcasts

Re: A question about bluetooth and connecting braille displays.

2012-06-07 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Annie Well, with the Brailliant 40 it just asks me to pair with the iPhone or the Mac, using the standard PIN and that's all there is to it. I grant you it's a pain having to do that but I honestly don't know of any other way around the problem. Gordon On 5 Jun 2012, at 12:35, Annie Skov

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Timothy J. Meloy
Read iris is pretty simple to use. There is a good instructions document out there for configuring it to scan and save as RTF documents. I use it to scan mail and it works quite well for the most part. Note that if you have a canon scanner you will also need to obtain a copy of VueScan, for a

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Anne Robertson
The simplest and best OCR for Mac is ABBYY FineReader Express. You can get it from the Mac Appstore. Cheers, Anne On 7 Jun 2012, at 12:11, Ian Harrison wrote: > Hello to all, > > can you recommend a simple to use o c r programme for the mac. > > I have a scanner now and would like to be abl

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I agree with Anne. I have used both Read Iris and Abbyy Fine Reader OCR apps on my iMac and much prefer Abbyy fine reader. To be fair my version of Read Iris is about two years old and it might have improved since then Paul Hopewell On 7 Jun 2012, at 17:09, Anne Robertson wrote:

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Anne I agree with part of your reply. Yes, FineReader is probably the best, but it depends upon which scanner you happen to have. As for the simplest, I'm not quite sure I agree with that bit. :) I submit that DocuScan Plus is probably the simplest, but there are parts of that app which I

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread stuart young
Hi Ian, have you tryed A program called docuscann+? this is made by a company called serotek, and it is available in the mac app store. this is very simple to use if you are able to afford it. and works really nice with voiceover as well. Regards. Stuart. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gordon, On 7 Jun 2012, at 18:19, Gordon Smith wrote: > > > I agree with part of your reply. Yes, FineReader is probably the best, but > it depends upon which scanner you happen to have. I get round that problem by using VueScan to produce the images. VueScan also does multipage scannin

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Anne On 7 Jun 2012, at 18:39, Anne Robertson wrote: I get round that problem by using VueScan to produce the images. VueScan also does multipage scanning so the additional expense is worth it. I appreciate that. But it doesn't make it the "Simplest" solution because you have to have 2 app

Re: PDF files

2012-06-07 Thread Travis Siegel
On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: It can be but it has its quirks If yuo move awayfrom and back to the documnt it will start back at the thop, or it did the last time I use it which was about 6 to 8 months ago lol!It only does that if you're in continuous page view, and you